CAROL AISHA BLACKSHIRE-BELAY is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Indiana State University. Her work centers on the impact of Africa on German culture and vice versa, as well as the emergence of Ebonics, Afrocentric language analysis, African-German relations, African/African American History, and African Diaspora Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books including Language and Liteerature in the African American Imagination (Greenwood, 1992), The German Mosaic (Greenwood, 1993), and The Image of Africa in German Society. She also serves as the director of the International African-German Network. Dr. Blackshire-Belay is widely recognized as one of the leading experts on historical and contemporary issues facing African-descended people in contemporary western European society.

• Introduction: Critical Essays on the African German Experience by Carol Aisha Blackshire-BelayAfrican Germans and the Problem of Cultural Location by Molefi Kete AsanteBlack Germans and Their Compatriots by Marilyn SephocleFrom Toxi to TV: Multiculturalism and the Changing Images of Black Germans by Francine JobateyInventing Self: Parallels in the African German and African American Experience by Leroy HopkinsAfrican Germans in the Third Reich by Susann SamplesAfrican German/African American--Dialogue or Dialectic?: Reflections on an Intercultural Dynamic by Tina CamptHistorical Revelations: The International Scope of African Germans Today and Beyond by Carol Aisha Blackshire-BelaySuggestions for Further ReadingIndex